American Book Review 100 Best First Lines from Novels

[Dave Monroe]

Very good, and I certainly wouldn't begrudge either
Melville or Austen here, but missing my favorite ...

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing
new." --Samuel Beckett, Murphy (1936)

On the other hand, last lines ...

'"Women, ---t."  --William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
(1939)

--- Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html
> 
> 100 Best First Lines from Novels
> 
> 1. Call me Ishmael. --Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
> (1851)
> 
> 2. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
> single man in possession of a good fortune, must
> be in want of a wife. --Jane Austen, Pride and 
> Prejudice (1813)
> 
> 3. A screaming comes across the sky. --Thomas
> Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973) ...

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